"The Brown Bear of Norway"
A play by E. Lucia Turnbull with music by lanthe Dalway
Singers:
Helen Carter. Raymond .Marshall
Henry Hinds Mary Johnston
Pianists:
Havelock Nelson May Turtle
Produced by Gethyn Stoodley Thomas
This story tells how Fiona, youngest and prettiest daughter of the High King of Ireland, released the Brown Bear of Norway from a witch's spell and restored him to his handsome princely shape. Because of an insult to the witch the prince was transformed into a bear, condemned to wander the earth until (which seemed highly improbable) there arrived a lady pitiful enough to marry him of her own free will and to endure five years of hardship with him as the spell wore out. The witch, however, had reckoned without the kind heart of the High King's youngest daughter.....